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Noah Shakespeare
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1839 - 1921
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Noah Shakspeare was a photographer, politician, labourer, activist, and civil servant. He was born on January 26, 1839 in Brierley Hill, England, son of Noah Shakespeare and Hannah Matthews. He married Eliza Jane Pearson on December 26, 1859, and they had seven children, of whom three sons and one daughter survived infancy. He and his family moved to Victoria, where he took up a career as a photographer from 1864 to the 1870s. He was elected and served as mayor of Victoria, B. C. in 1882 - 1888. He died on May 13, 1921 in Victoria.
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"Biography – SHAKESPEARE, NOAH – Volume XV (1921-1930) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography." Biography – SHAKESPEARE, NOAH – Volume XV (1921-1930) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography. 2016. Accessed March 31, 2016. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/shakespeare_noah_15E.html.